This package performs model-free reinforcement learning in R. This implementation enables the learning of an optimal policy based on sample sequences consisting of states, actions and rewards. In addition, it supplies multiple predefined reinforcement learning algorithms, such as experience replay. Methodological details can be found in Sutton and Barto (1998) <ISBN:0262039249>.

This package provides functions for estimating models using a Hierarchical Bayesian (HB) framework. The flexibility comes in allowing the user to specify the likelihood function directly instead of assuming predetermined model structures. Types of models that can be estimated with this code include the family of discrete choice models (Multinomial Logit, Mixed Logit, Nested Logit, Error Components Logit and Latent Class) as well ordered response models like ordered probit and ordered logit. In addition, the package allows for flexibility in specifying parameters as either fixed (non-varying across individuals) or random with continuous distributions. Parameter distributions supported include normal, positive/negative log-normal, positive/negative censored normal, and the Johnson SB distribution. Kenneth Train's Matlab and Gauss code for doing Hierarchical Bayesian estimation has served as the basis for a few of the functions included in this package. These Matlab/Gauss functions have been rewritten to be optimized within R. Considerable code has been added to increase the flexibility and usability of the code base. Train's original Gauss and Matlab code can be found here: <http://elsa.berkeley.edu/Software/abstracts/train1006mxlhb.html> See Train's chapter on HB in Discrete Choice with Simulation here: <http://elsa.berkeley.edu/books/choice2.html>; and his paper on using HB with non-normal distributions here: <http://eml.berkeley.edu//~train/trainsonnier.pdf>. The authors would also like to thank the invaluable contributions of Stephane Hess and the Choice Modelling Centre: <https://cmc.leeds.ac.uk/>.

Interface to the ChEA3 transcription factor enrichment API. ChEA3 integrates evidence from ChIP-seq, co-expression, and literature resources to prioritize transcription factors regulating a given set of genes. This package provides convenient R functions to query the API, retrieve ranked results across collections (including integrated scores), and standardize output for downstream analysis in R/Bioconductor workflows. See <https://maayanlab.cloud/chea3/> or Keenan (2019) <doi:10.1093/nar/gkz446> for further details.

This package provides a collection of high-level, machine- and OS-independent tools for making reproducible and reusable content in R. The two workhorse functions are Cache() and prepInputs()'. Cache() allows for nested caching, is robust to environments and objects with environments (like functions), and deals with some classes of file-backed R objects e.g., from terra and raster packages. Both functions have been developed to be foundational components of data retrieval and processing in continuous workflow situations. In both functions, efforts are made to make the first and subsequent calls of functions have the same result, but faster at subsequent times by way of checksums and digesting. Several features are still under development, including cloud storage of cached objects allowing for sharing between users. Several advanced options are available, see ?reproducibleOptions()'.

Integrated tools to support rigorous and well documented data harmonization based on Maelstrom Research guidelines. The package includes functions to assess and prepare input elements, apply specified processing rules to generate harmonized datasets, validate data processing and identify processing errors, and document and summarize harmonized outputs. The harmonization process is defined and structured by two key user-generated documents: the DataSchema (specifying the list of harmonized variables to generate across datasets) and the Data Processing Elements (specifying the input elements and processing algorithms to generate harmonized variables in DataSchema formats). The package was developed to address key challenges of retrospective data harmonization in epidemiology (as described in Fortier I and al. (2017) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyw075>) but can be used for any data harmonization initiative.

This package provides functions for studying realized genetic relatedness between people. Users will be able to simulate inheritance patterns given pedigree structures, generate SNP marker data given inheritance patterns, and estimate realized relatedness between pairs of individuals using SNP marker data. See Wang (2017) <doi:10.1534/genetics.116.197004>. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R37 GM-046255.

The tools and utilities to estimate the model described in "Gremlin's in the Data: Identifying the Information Content of Research Subjects" (Howell et al. (2021) <doi:10.1177/0022243720965930>) using conjoint analysis data such as that collected in Sawtooth Software's Lighthouse or Discover products. Additional utilities are included for formatting the input data.

This package provides a thin wrapper around the tiktoken-rs crate, allowing to encode text into Byte-Pair-Encoding (BPE) tokens and decode tokens back to text. This is useful to understand how Large Language Models (LLMs) perceive text.

Sundry discrete probability distributions and helper functions.

This package performs regularization of differential item functioning (DIF) parameters in item response theory (IRT) models (Belzak & Bauer, 2020) <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31916799/> using a penalized expectation-maximization algorithm.

This package provides a robust Partial Least-Squares (PLS) method is implemented that is robust to outliers in the residuals as well as to leverage points. A specific weighting scheme is applied which avoids iterations, and leads to a highly efficient robust PLS estimator.

This package provides interface to the Bioinfo-C (internal name: BIOS') library and utilities. ribiosUtils is a Swiss-knife for computational biology in drug discovery, providing functions and utilities with minimal external dependency and maximal efficiency.

This package provides tools for getting historical weather information and forecasts from wunderground.com. Historical weather and forecast data includes, but is not limited to, temperature, humidity, windchill, wind speed, dew point, heat index. Additionally, the weather underground weather API also includes information on sunrise/sunset, tidal conditions, satellite/webcam imagery, weather alerts, hurricane alerts and historical high/low temperatures.

This package provides tools for qPCR data analysis using Delta Ct and Delta Delta Ct methods, including t-test, Wilcoxon-test, ANOVA models, and publication-ready visualizations. The package supports multiple target, and multiple reference genes, and uses a calculation framework adopted from Ganger et al. (2017) <doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1949-5> and Taylor et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.12.002>, covering both the Livak and Pfaffl methods.

This package produces Shiny applications for different types of popular functional data analyses. The functional data analyses are implemented in the refund package, then refund.shiny reads in the refund object and implements an object-specific set of plots based on the object class using S3.

Randomization inference procedures for simple and complex randomized designs, including multi-armed trials, as described in Gerber and Green (2012, ISBN: 978-0393979954). Users formally describe their randomization procedure and test statistic. The randomization distribution of the test statistic under some null hypothesis is efficiently simulated.

This package provides functionality to interact with the FieldClimate API <https://api.fieldclimate.com/v2/docs/>.

With this package we provide an easy method to compute robust and conditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and Benefit of the Doubt (BOD) scores. The robust approach is based on the work of Cazals, Florens and Simar (2002) <doi:10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00080-X>. The conditional approach is based on Daraio and Simar (2007) <doi:10.1007/s11123-007-0049-3>. Besides we provide graphs to help with the choice of m. We relay on the Benchmarking package to compute the efficiency scores and on the np package to compute non parametric estimation of similarity among units.

This package provides a range of functions for the design and analysis of disease surveillance activities. These functions were originally developed for animal health surveillance activities but can be equally applied to aquatic animal, wildlife, plant and human health surveillance activities. Utilities are included for sample size calculation and analysis of representative surveys for disease freedom, risk-based studies for disease freedom and for prevalence estimation. This package is based on Cameron A., Conraths F., Frohlich A., Schauer B., Schulz K., Sergeant E., Sonnenburg J., Staubach C. (2015). R package of functions for risk-based surveillance. Deliverable 6.24, WP 6 - Decision making tools for implementing risk-based surveillance, Grant Number no. 310806, RISKSUR (<https://www.fp7-risksur.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Deliverables/RISKSUR_%28310806%29_D6.24.pdf>). Many of the RSurveillance functions are incorporated into the epitools website: Sergeant, ESG, 2019. Epitools epidemiological calculators. Ausvet Pty Ltd. Available at: <http://epitools.ausvet.com.au>.

The kappa statistic implemented by Fleiss is a very popular index for assessing the reliability of agreement among multiple observers. It is used both in the psychological and in the psychiatric field. Other fields of application are typically medicine, biology and engineering. Unfortunately,the kappa statistic may behave inconsistently in case of strong agreement between raters, since this index assumes lower values than it would have been expected. We propose a modification kappa implemented by Fleiss in case of nominal and ordinal variables. Monte Carlo simulations are used both to testing statistical hypotheses and to calculating percentile bootstrap confidence intervals based on proposed statistic in case of nominal and ordinal data.

This package provides a programmatic interface to FishBase', re-written based on an accompanying RESTful API. Access tables describing over 30,000 species of fish, their biology, ecology, morphology, and more. This package also supports experimental access to SeaLifeBase data, which contains nearly 200,000 species records for all types of aquatic life not covered by FishBase.'.

This package provides a collection of tools for measuring the similarity of text messages and tracing the flow of messages over time and across media.

Aims at loading Google Adwords data into R. Adwords is an online advertising service that enables advertisers to display advertising copy to web users (see <https://developers.google.com/adwords/> for more information). Therefore the package implements three main features. First, the package provides an authentication process for R with the Google Adwords API (see <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/> for more information) via OAUTH2. Second, the package offers an interface to apply the Adwords query language in R and query the Adwords API with ad-hoc reports. Third, the received data are transformed into suitable data formats for further data processing and data analysis.

This package creates JavaScript charts. The charts can be included in Shiny apps and R markdown documents, or viewed from the R console and RStudio viewer. Based on the JavaScript library amCharts 4 and the R packages htmlwidgets and reactR'. Currently available types of chart are: vertical and horizontal bar chart, radial bar chart, stacked bar chart, vertical and horizontal Dumbbell chart, line chart, scatter chart, range area chart, gauge chart, boxplot chart, pie chart, and 100% stacked bar chart.